ABOUT

We make bags out of jeans. We do more than that, but that’s the simple version. Using 2 pairs of second hand jeans, we transform them into shorts and use the offcuts to create a reversible bag, with adjustable strap and handy inner pocket.

Our design model is focussed on sustainability and being part of a circular economy. By up-cycling in this way, every part of the product continues to have a use beyond its original intention.

SHOP OUR BAGS
LEARN TO MAKE

But POLP is not just about selling bags, it’s an open-access platform to enable others to do the same. The bag pattern is free to download alongside the assembly instructions.
We actively encourage people to rip us off, we want to do the opposite of gatekeeping in order to facilitate a community transformation of the way we consume. Visitors to this site might just come to buy a bag, we’d love it if they left the site wanting to make one.

For those who do choose to use our pattern to make a bag, we offer a platform from which they can sell it, or trade it, to the wider community. In this way the POLP shop stocks itself with ever-changing creations.

POLP

BUY ← TRANSFORMED <- BUY GOODS MADE BY OTHERS ←

SELL . GIVE NEW LIFE > TELL NEW STORIES > SELL > FUND NEW VENTURES

MAKE ME -> NO EXCUSES -> LEARN TO SEW -> LOOK COOL DOING IT ->

GET THE PATTERN | RISOGRAPH PRINT | SHOP THE PATTERN |

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